Here we have two interesting pieces of information. A Stage Combat Boot Camp organized by the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork, and an advertisement for a position in Limerick Youth Theatre. I hope it proves useful!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Check out the next couple of events happening these coming weeks. The first Cork Comedy Festival is happening this week in Cork (publicity for it has not been huge!), check more details at www.corkcomedyfestival.com. A New Directors Festival is to be
organized by the Granary and they are looking for submissions. Also check out the Combat Training Boot Camp for actors at the bottom of the bulletin. Lots of interesting stuff!!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Spotted on the BBC news site. A prison official in the Philippines has come up with a novel way to demoralise and control the country’s most dangerous criminals.

I can see it now “Mountjoy the Movie” a tale of one man’s …..please send all scripts to Bifsniff. Frank may even put up a T-Shirt for the winning script.

If you read this blog regularly, you might remember me talking about some ‘Creepy but Cute’ soft toys that I liked… so imagine my delight when I got this fellow in the post for my birthday (which was on Saturday - happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me):

Yes indeedy, AND he was accompanied by his gruff buddy ‘Smorkin Labbit’ who makes for a very trendy looking ornament in my workspace:

Thanks Audrey! And thanks Kid Robot! My mother thinks I’m mad, though she thinks that I must be fulfilling a need late in life for cool toys that she never bought me as a child… but I don’t think that’s it, after all she bought me Lego! Let’s face it, I just never grew up

Who would have thunk it - that our very own Bob Byrne, creator of the people’s comic ‘The Shiznit’, distributed for free nationwide, would crumple under the pressures of our capitalist oppressors and sell his genius for pennies from the Man…?

Yes, it’s true. Textual.tv is now branded with the unmistakable iconography of Bob Byrne and is being advertised on the internet using Bob’s brand new animation talents…

Check out Bob’s first completed Flash animation:

I dread to think where Bob’s animation talents will take him once he throws off the shackles of commercialism…